“Neighborhood, Parish, Union: Working-Class Sites of Mexican Racial Transformation in the Greater Chicago Region During the 1930s” Michael McCoyer, Northwestern University/History Associates “The People, the Land, and the Job: Creating Community among Mexicans in South Chicago, 1916-1939” Michael Innis-Jimenez, William Patterson University “Shaping Transnational Identities: Competing Visions of a Mexican American Community between the Frente Popular Mexicano and the University of Chicago Settlement House” John Flores, University of Illinois at Chicago

Comment: Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago

Session 2: Education, Socialization and Mexican American Life in Mid-Twentieth Century Chicago Chair: Marc Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame

“Mexican Women’s Voices in Chicago’s Educational History during the Mid Twentieth Century” Angelica Rivera, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign “The Chicano Movement Beyond Aztlán: Mexican American Activists in 1970s Chicago” Lilia Fernandez, Ohio State University “1965–2000: The Mexican Contribution to Diversity and Urban Change in an Historically Black-White Chicago” John Koval, DePaul University/University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies